JPH11136403A - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attach and detach the receiving base of a handset to/from an equipment main body and to install the receiving base at a place away from the equipment main body with respect to a communication equipment, a facsimile equipment for instance. SOLUTION: Magnets are equipped on the inner surface of a main body casing 11 and the inner surface of a receiving base casing 41 and a main body side overlap surface 14 and a receiving base side overlap surface 44 are attracted by the attracting action of the magnets. An electric cord 7 between the equipment main body 1 and the receiving base 4 is withdrawn and delivered by a withdraw and delivery mechanism incorporated in the equipment main body 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication apparatus such as a facsimile apparatus in which a main body of the apparatus and a receiving stand of a handset are detachable.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a facsimile apparatus which is one of communication apparatuses, a receiving stand attached to a side, a front, or a rear of a device main body having a mutual conversion function between visual information and an electric signal has a receiving stand. There has been a situation in which a large installation space has to be ensured by an amount protruding from the apparatus main body. Therefore, it has been performed to make the apparatus main body and the telephone handset detachable.

A facsimile apparatus in which a receiving stand of a handset is attached to and detached from an apparatus main body is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No. 4-4.
No. 8763, Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 4-1055752, Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 5-65159, and the like. this house,
The attachment / detachment mechanism described in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No. 4-48763 discloses an attachment / detachment mechanism for attaching a pedestal to the main body of the facsimile machine via a mounting plate integrally provided with an insertion portion to the facsimile machine main body and a pedestal to the cradle base. It can be worn. In addition, 4-105
No. 752 and Japanese Unexamined Utility Model Publication No. 5-65159 disclose an attaching / detaching mechanism capable of disengaging and disengaging the facsimile apparatus main body side and the receiving table side. And an engaging claw.

[0004]

Problems to be Solved by the Invention
In the attachment / detachment mechanism described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open Publication No. H10-105, the insertion portion of the mounting plate is inserted into an insertion hole provided on the facsimile apparatus body side or the receiving table side.
In the attaching / detaching mechanism described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 752 or No. 5-65159, an engaging claw is hooked on the engaging portion. Therefore, when mounting the cradle to the apparatus main body, there is a trouble that it is necessary to align the cradle to the apparatus main body with some care, and when removing the cradle from the apparatus main body, If the cradle is twisted, there is a problem that the insertion portion of the mounting plate and the engagement claws are likely to be damaged. Further, since the electric cord routed between the apparatus main body and the receiving stand is relatively short, it is impossible to install the receiving stand removed from the apparatus main body at a place away from the apparatus main body. Even when the cradle is detached from the apparatus main body, there is a problem that the apparatus main body is obstructed when the telephone handset is picked up from the cradle.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and has been described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication device which can attach and detach a table to and from a device main body of a communication device such as a facsimile device, and which does not require careful alignment of the receiving table with respect to the device main body at the time of mounting.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a communication device which can install a receiving stand detached from the apparatus main body at a place remote from the apparatus main body, for example, on an indoor wall surface.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication apparatus including a main body and a receiving stand of a handset, wherein the main body has a main body casing on an outer surface thereof. An overlapping surface is formed, and a receiving side overlapping surface that can be overlapped with the main body side overlapping surface is formed on an outer surface of a receiving base casing forming the receiving base, and the main body side overlapping surface and A pair of attracting surfaces capable of attracting each other under the influence of the attracting action of the magnet are formed separately on each of the receiving side overlapping surfaces.
That is.

According to the present invention, when the main body side overlapping surface of the outer surface of the main body casing and the receiving surface side overlapping surface of the receiving surface casing are overlapped, the attraction surfaces formed on the overlapping surfaces are magnetized. The receiving pedestals are attached to the main body of the apparatus by being attracted to each other under the influence of the suction action. For this reason, it is not always necessary to carefully position the cradle with respect to the apparatus main body at the time of mounting. When removing the cradle mounted on the apparatus body, the cradle may be grasped by hand and the suction surface on the cradle side may be removed from the suction surface on the device body side. For this reason, even if the pedestal is casually removed from the apparatus main body, a specific portion is not damaged.

In the present invention, the "a pair of attracting surfaces capable of attracting each other under the influence of the attracting action of the magnet" includes a pair of attracting surfaces exhibiting the attracting action of the magnet. It is meant to include one attracting surface exerted and the other attracting surface having the property of being attracted by the attracting action of the magnet exerted by such one attracting surface.

[0010] According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the communication device according to the first aspect, the attraction surface formed on the main body side overlapping surface has an attraction effect of a magnet provided on an inner surface of the main body casing. And the attraction surface formed on the pedestal-side overlapping surface is formed so as to exert an attraction effect of the magnet provided on the inner surface of the pedestal casing. In the present invention, the suction surface formed on the main-body-side overlapping surface and the suction surface formed on the receiving-table-side overlapping surface correspond to the above-described "a pair of suction surfaces exhibiting the magnet attracting action". Therefore, also according to the present invention, the same operation as that described in claim 1 is exerted.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the communication device according to the first aspect, any one of the suction surface formed on the main body side overlapping surface and the suction surface formed on the receiving table side overlapping surface is provided. One of the attracting surfaces exerts the attracting action of the magnet,
The other attracting surface has a property of being attracted by the attracting action of the magnet exerted by the one attracting surface. In the present invention, one of the attraction surfaces corresponds to the above-mentioned "one attraction surface exhibiting the attraction effect of the magnet", and the other attraction surface corresponds to the "attraction effect of the magnet exerted by the one attraction surface". The other suction surface having the property of being attracted. " Therefore, also according to the present invention, the same operation as that described in claim 1 is exerted.

A communication device according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the communication device according to the third aspect, wherein a magnet is provided on one of the inner surface of the main body casing and the inner surface of the pedestal casing, and a magnetic material is provided on the other. It is deployed.

In the present invention, in the case where the magnet is provided on the inner surface of the main body casing and the magnetic material is provided on the inner surface of the receiving base casing, the attraction surface of the main body side overlapping surface has the above-mentioned “magnet attracting action”. The attraction surface of the receiving-side overlapping surface corresponds to the “one attraction surface exerted by the magnet attracted by the magnet exerted by the one attraction surface”. Will be equivalent to On the contrary, in the case where the magnet is provided on the inner surface of the receiving casing and the magnetic body is provided on the inner surface of the main casing, the attracting surface of the receiving surface side overlapping surface has the above-mentioned `` magnet attracting action ''. One suction surface to show off "
And the attraction surface of the main body side overlapping surface corresponds to the above-mentioned "the other attraction surface having the property of being attracted by the attraction action of the magnet exerted by one attraction surface". Therefore, also according to the present invention, the same operation as that described in claim 1 is exerted.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication device according to any one of the first, second, third, and fourth aspects, wherein the communication device is derived from the device main body and introduced into the receiving stand. The connected electrical cord is connected to a feed-in / feed-out mechanism installed inside the apparatus main body so that the electric cord can be fed in and out of the apparatus main body. In the case of adopting this configuration, as in the invention according to claim 6, the feed-in / feed-out mechanism includes a take-up reel of the electric cord and a spring body that constantly urges the take-up reel in a take-up rotation direction. It is desirable to have.

According to the present invention, when the pedestal is removed from the apparatus main body, the electric cord is pulled out from the apparatus main body by a length corresponding to the separation distance between the installation place of the pedestal and the apparatus main body and routed. It becomes possible. By configuring the feed-in / feed-out mechanism as in the invention according to claim 6, it is possible to reduce the size of the feed-in / feed-out mechanism and to secure a longest draw-out length of the electric cord.

[0016]

FIG. 1 is a schematic partial plan view of a facsimile apparatus as an example of a communication apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of an apparatus body 1 of the facsimile apparatus, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a main part of FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of a feeding / unloading mechanism 6, and FIG.
It is explanatory drawing which shows the installation state of.

As shown in FIG. 1, the facsimile apparatus includes an apparatus main body 1 and a cradle 4 of a telephone handset 3. The apparatus main body 1 has a mutual conversion function between visual information and electric signals, and its main body casing 11 has an operation panel section 12 on which necessary keys and operation parts are arranged, a paper inlet 13 and the like. ing. The outer surface of the main body casing 11 is formed as a flat main body side overlapping surface 14. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4, or FIG.
Plate-shaped permanent magnet (hereinafter simply referred to as "magnet") on the inner surface of 1
Reference numeral 15 is provided via a known mechanism such as a bonding or engagement mechanism. As described above, when the magnet 15 is provided on the inner surface of the main body casing 11 opposite to the main body side overlapping surface 14, the magnet 15 is attracted to the main body side overlapping surface 14 so that The side overlapping surface 14 acts as the attracting surface 16 that exerts the attracting action of the magnet 45.

On the other hand, the receiving section 31 and the transmitting section 3 of the handset 3 are placed on the casing (receiving casing) 41 of the receiving stand 4.
In addition to the recesses 42 and 43 for accommodating the housing 2, a wall hanging portion (not shown) and a mounting seat (not shown) are provided on the back side of the receiving casing 41.
A spirally stretchable electric cord 33 is wound between the handset 3 and the receiving part 4. The left and right outer surfaces of the pedestal casing 41 are formed as flat pedestal-side overlapping surfaces 44, and the entire surface of the pedestal-side overlapping surface 44 is the main body-side overlapping surface 1 described above.
4 can be superimposed on the entire surface. Then, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG.
A plate-shaped permanent magnet (hereinafter, simply referred to as a “magnet”) 45 is provided on the inner surface of the cradle casing 11 having a known mechanism such as an adhesive or an engagement mechanism. in this way,
When the magnet 45 is provided on the inner surface of the pedestal casing 41 opposite to the pedestal-side overlapping surface 44, the magnet 45 is attracted to the pedestal-side overlapping surface 44, and the pedestal of the pedestal The side overlapping surface 44 acts as an attraction surface 46 for exerting the attraction of the magnet 45.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, an electric cord 7 is led out of the apparatus main body 1, and the electric cord 7 is introduced into the receiving stand 4 as shown in FIG. This electric cord 7 is
As shown in FIG. 5, it is connected to a feed-in / feed-out mechanism 6 installed in the inside of the apparatus main body 1 so that it can be fed in and out of the apparatus main body 1. The feed-in / feed-out mechanism 6 has a take-up reel 61 and a spring body 62 composed of a spiral spring which constantly urges the take-up reel 61 in the take-up rotation direction. The cord 7 is wound up by the force of the spring body 62. Accordingly, when the electric cord 7 is pulled by grasping the cradle 4 by hand, the electric cord 7 wound on the take-up reel 61 is fed out of the apparatus main body 1 while the take-up reel 61 rotates, while the apparatus main body is pulled out. When the cradle 4 is moved closer to the apparatus main body 1 from a location away from the device 1, the take-up reel 61 winds up the electric cord 7 by the force of the spring body 62. In FIG. 5, 63 and 64 are take-up reels 6.
1 is a bearing for supporting the bearing 1.

According to the facsimile apparatus described above,
The cradle 4 of the handset 3 may be mounted and installed on the side of the main body casing 11 of the apparatus main body 1 as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 6, it is also possible to install the apparatus at a place away from the apparatus main body 1.

When the pedestal 4 is mounted on the side surface of the main body casing 11, the main body side overlapping surface 14 of the outer surface of the main body casing 11 and the pedestal side overlapping surface 44 of the outer surface of the pedestal casing 41 are overlapped. In this manner, the attraction surfaces 16, 46 formed on the overlapping surfaces 14, 44 are attracted to each other under the influence of the attraction action of the magnets 15, 45, and the receiving base 4 is moved to the apparatus main body 1 as shown in FIG. Is held. In this case, since the receiving table 4 is close to the apparatus main body 1, the electric cord 7 is drawn into the apparatus main body 1 by the operation of the feed-in / out mechanism 6. Therefore, the electric cord 7
However, there is no danger between the cradle 7 and the apparatus main body 1 and it becomes obstructive or unsightly. In addition, cradle 4
Is held by the suction surfaces 16 and 46 of the apparatus main body 1 by suction. Therefore, when the receiving table 4 is mounted on the apparatus main body 1, it is not always necessary to carefully position the receiving table 4 with respect to the apparatus main body 1. It is only necessary to hold the pedestal 4 by hand and to overlap the pedestal-side overlapping surface 44 with the main-body-side overlapping surface 14 of the apparatus main body 1 in a casual manner. The cradle 4 is held by the apparatus main body 1. Note that, as in this embodiment, the suction surfaces 16, 4
6 are designed to exert the attracting action of the magnets 16 and 46, the pedestal 4 is held by hand and the pedestal-side overlapping surface 44 is held.
By simply superimposing the suction surface on the main body side overlapping surface 14 of the device main body 1 casually, the suction surfaces 46 and 16 can be suctioned at a substantially constant position. Has the advantage of being held in a proper posture.

When the receiving table 4 mounted on the apparatus main body 1 is to be detached, the receiving table 4 may be grasped by hand and the suction surface 46 on the receiving table 4 side may be removed from the suction surface 16 on the apparatus main body 1 side. The cradle 4 removed from the apparatus main body 1 can be mounted on a wall surface W in a room as shown in FIG. When the cradle 4 is installed in a place away from the apparatus main body 1 such as by mounting it on a wall in this way, a situation in which the apparatus main body 1 is obstructed when handling the handset 3 does not occur, Further, the installation space for the apparatus main body 1 can be reduced. When the cradle 4 is installed at a location distant from the apparatus main body 1, the electric cord 7 is extended from the apparatus main body 1 by a length corresponding to the distance from the apparatus main body 1 to the installation location of the cradle 4.

In the embodiment described above, the magnets 15 and 45 are provided on both the inner surface of the main body casing 11 and the inner surface of the pedestal casing 31 so that their attraction surfaces 1 are provided.
Although both 6 and 46 are formed so as to exert a magnet attracting action, the configuration of each suction surface on the apparatus body 1 side and the receiving table 4 side is not limited to this. For example, a magnet is provided only on the inner surface of the main casing, and a magnetic body such as an iron plate is provided on the inner surface of the cradle casing. A magnetic body such as an iron plate may be provided on the inner surface. In these cases, the attraction surface of the magnet is exerted by the attraction surface on which the magnet is provided, and the attraction surface of the side at which the magnetic material is disposed exhibits the property of being attracted by the attraction effect of the magnet. Further, the magnet does not necessarily have to be in the form of a plate as shown in the figure, but the
A magnet having a shape and a size that can partially form an attraction surface on the receiving surface 4 and the receiving side overlapping surface 44 may be used. others,
The magnet may be embedded in the synthetic resin layer forming the main body casing 11 and the cradle casing 41.

Further, the feeding and feeding mechanism 6 for drawing and feeding the electric cord 7 into and out of the apparatus main body 1 is not limited to the one described with reference to FIG. In short, the feed-in / feed-out mechanism 6 only needs to have a function of pulling the electric cord 7 into or out of the apparatus main body 1.

In this embodiment, a facsimile apparatus is exemplified as a communication apparatus. However, the present invention can be similarly applied to other communication apparatuses including an apparatus main body and a handset cradle.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, the cradle of the handset can be attached to and detached from the main body of the apparatus, and the mounting operation and the detaching operation can be carried out without paying much attention. It is possible to provide a communication device that does not have any parts that are damaged during attachment and detachment. Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a communication device in which the receiving stand detached from the apparatus main body can be installed at a place distant from the apparatus main body, for example, on an indoor wall surface.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic partial plan view of a facsimile apparatus as an example of a communication apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic side view of a main body of the facsimile machine.

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing a handset and a cradle thereof.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a main part of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a feeding and feeding mechanism.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an installation state of a receiving stand removed from the apparatus main body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Device main body 3 Handset 4 Receiving stand 6 Feeding and feeding mechanism 7 Electric cord 11 Main casing 14 Main body side overlapping surface 15, 45 Permanent magnet (magnet) 16, 46 Suction surface 41 Receiving stand casing 44 Receiving side overlapping surface 61 Winding reel 62 spring body

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A communication device comprising an apparatus main body and a pedestal of a handset, wherein a main body side overlapping surface is formed on an outer surface of a main body casing forming the apparatus main body, and the pedestal is formed. A pedestal-side overlapping surface that can be superimposed on the main body-side overlapping surface is formed on an outer surface of a cradle casing that is
A communication device, wherein a pair of attracting surfaces capable of attracting each other under the influence of a magnet attracting action are formed separately on each of the main body side overlapping surface and the receiving table side overlapping surface. 2. The attraction surface formed on the main body side overlapping surface exerts an attraction effect of a magnet provided on an inner surface of the main body casing, and the attraction surface formed on the receiving table side overlapping surface is 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the magnet is arranged to exert an attraction effect of a magnet disposed on an inner surface of the receiving casing.
The communication device described in 1. 3. An attraction surface of one of the attraction surface formed at the main body-side overlapping surface and the attraction surface formed at the pedestal-side overlapping surface exerts a magnet attracting action, and the other attraction surface is provided with a magnet. 2. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the communication device has a property of being attracted by an attraction effect of a magnet exerted by one of the attraction surfaces. 4. The communication device according to claim 3, wherein a magnet is provided on one of the inner surface of the main body casing and the inner surface of the pedestal casing, and a magnetic body is provided on the other. 5. An electric cord led out of the apparatus main body and introduced into the receiving stand is connected to a feeding / feeding mechanism installed inside the apparatus main body so that the electric cord can be fed and fed to the apparatus main body. The communication device according to any one of claims 1, 2, 3, and 4, wherein: 6. The communication device according to claim 5, wherein said feeding / unloading mechanism has a take-up reel for said electric cord and a spring body which constantly urges said take-up reel in a take-up rotation direction.